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Bugatti Royale Kellner Coupe $9,700,000

Known as the Kellner carBricked up with 41.110 and 41.150 during World War II at the home of the Bugatti family in Ermenonville, to avoid being commandeered by the Nazis. Sold together with 41.150 by L'Ebe Bugatti in 1950 to American Le Mans racer Briggs Cunningham, in return for a small but undisclosed sum of money, plus a couple of new General Electric refrigerators, then unavailable in post-war France. After closing his museum in 1986,[9] in 1987 the car was sold direct from Briggs Cunningham's collection by Christie's for £5.5 million or $9.7 million U.S. at the Royal Albert Hall, to Swedish property tycoon Hans Thulin. The car was also offered for auction in 1989 by Kruse in Las Vegas where Ed Weaver bid the car to $11.5 million, which was declined by Thulin, reserve was $15 million. On collapse of his empire, Thulin sold the car in 1990 for a reported $15.7 million to Japanese conglomerate the Meitec Corporation, and it resided in their modern building basement before being offered for sale for £10million by Bonhams & Brooks by private treaty in 2001.

Lumma Design BMW CLR X 650 GT

Lumma Design prepared a special tuning package
for the BMW X6 and they are going to unveil the new
BMW CLR X 650 GT at the Geneva Motor Show that
starts next week. A lot of BMW
Tuners tried to add their stylish touch to the popular BMW X6 and
Lumma Design wanted to make their own version of this car. The BMW X6
received a lot of new body elements which improve the car’s
aerodynamics like a new front bumper with a carbon fiber lip spoiler,
wide fenders and side skirts, a new rear bumper and a carbon fiber
rear wing. BMW
magazine also wrote about the previous BMW X6 kit
from Lumma but the new car looks better than the old version. The
car’s roof was painted with a black matte color and the car
received a set of 23″ bi-color alloy wheels equipped with high
performance tires sized 315/25-23.

The company will also offer lowered
suspension with up to 35mm and the car’s interior will be modified
with new sports seats upholstered with leather and suede and a sport
steering wheel which will make anyone feel like a race driver in this
unique BMW X6.